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This event is now sold out. To join the waiting list please email [email protected]
Programme overview
The Clinical Update Sleep™: International Conference will guide you through the latest developments of sleep medicine, and will review the evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnoea, hypersomnia, parasomnia and insomnia, as well as circadian rhythm disorders.
7 CPD points
Awarded by Royal College Physicians
Who should attend
This conference is suitable for clinicians and allied health professionals with interest in sleep medicine.
Agenda
Breakfast Symposia sponsored by Idorsia
The role of hyperarousal in chronic insomnia
The sleep-wake cycle is a tightly orchestrated process regulated by both sleep-promoting and arousal centres in the brain. The conscious effort to sleep was shown to be a contributor for this arousal in patients with chronic insomnia and is associated to their subjective experience of sleep loss, daytime fatigue, and performance impairment.
Recent studies have shown that patients with chronic insomnia seem to experience an overly active brain due to heightened physiological, cognitive, or emotional arousal that seems to be connected to orexin.
This presentation will explore how this new knowledge might help the audience understand this complex condition. UK-IDS-00018.
- Speaker: Dr Inês Carreira Figueiredo MD MSc PhD, Medical Lead, Idorsia UK
How to book
This event is now sold out. To join the waiting list please email [email protected]
Course Director
Joerg Steier, FRCP, MD, PhD
Professor of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Professor Steier's training in medicine commenced at the University of Leipzig in Saxony. Following graduation, he worked on his MD thesis entitled "Transthoracic Echocardiography in Pulmonary Hypertension" and gathered work experience in Zurich, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham and in Bavaria. His respiratory training led him to the Western German Lung Centre at the University of Essen. His interest in respiratory physiology and sleep-disordered breathing brought him to London on a long-term research fellowship of the European Respiratory Society (ERS). His studies concluded in the PhD thesis on "Sleep-Disordered Breathing and the Respiratory Muscles" at King’s College London. The projects with the London Respiratory Physiology group resulted in research publications with involvement in an impact case and the development of new intellectual property. His work in the field of respiratory and sleep physiology has evolved into collaborations across six continents. Professor Steier works as Consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in the Lane Fox Unit, a tertiary service for weaning and non-invasive ventilation. He is also placed at the British Sleep Society (BSS) accredited Sleep Disorders Centre of King’s Health Partners. He was awarded the chair for Respiratory and Sleep Medicine at King’s College London. He is member of the executive committee of the British Sleep Society (BSS), task force member of the ERS, and currently serves as President of the BSS.
Sponsors
Idorsia
ResMed
Excite OSA by Signifier
ProSomnus®
Inspire Medical Systems
Alturix
Nowus Healthcare
Acurable
Sanofi
Panthera Sleep
